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On a mechanism of highest-energy cosmic ray acceleration
C. Litwin, R. Rosner
A recently proposed mechanism of acceleration of highest energy cosmic rays by polarization electric fields arising in plasmoids injected into neutron star magnetospheres is discus…
Plasmoid impacts on neutron stars and highest energy cosmic rays
C. Litwin, R. Rosner
Particle acceleration by electrostatic polarization fields that arise in plasmas streaming across magnetic fields is discussed as a possible acceleration mechanism of highest-energ…
Ballooning Instability in Polar Caps of Accreting Neutron Stars
C. Litwin, Edward F. Brown, R. Rosner
We assess the stability of Kruskal-Schwarzschild (magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor) type modes for accreted matter on the surface of a neutron star confined by a strong (>= 1.E12 G) magnet…
Force-Free Models of Magnetically Linked Star-Disk Systems
Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Arieh Konigl, Christof Litwin
Disk accretion onto a magnetized star occurs in a variety of astrophysical contexts, from young stars to X-ray pulsars. The magnetohydrodynamic interaction between the stellar fiel…